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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD M. SAUNDERS, OF SAUGUS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND EDWARD K. WILSON,OF NEWTONVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE WAGON-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,975, dated December22, 1874; application filed September 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD M. SAUNDEEs,

. of Saugus, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Wagons; and do hereby declarethe same to be fully described in the following specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes atop view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, andFig. 4 a transverse section, of a wagon provided with my invention. Fig.5 is an underside view, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section, of the coverwith its bonnet and end fastening- Fig. 7 is a side view of one of thebows as open, and Fig. 8 is an edge view of it as closed, its positionwhen placed in the receiver, and on the cross-bars underneath thewagon-body, being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. Fig. 9 is a top view,and Fig. 10 an edge view, of the front bow and its bonnetsupporter, asclosed for being packed underneath the wagon-body.

My invention is to enable a wagon-body to be readily tted with a covercapable, with its supports, of being packed in a suitable receivercombined with and arranged underneath the wagon-body, and my saidinvention has reference mainly to the cover and its supports.

In the drawings, A denotes a wagon-body provided on each of its oppositesides with two series of sockets, a a a a, b b b b, as usual, to receiveand sustain a series of bows, B B B B, for supporting a cover, O. Eachof the said bows I construct in four sections or bars, c o d d. The twosmaller bars d d are Vconnected to the bars c c by rule-joints, as shownat e e, such bars d d at their inner ends being joined by two links, ff, pivoted to them, the whole being so that such bars may be broughtinto positions, as shown in Figs. 4 and 7, or folded together, asrepresented in Fig. 8. With the front bow B so made I combine a foldingb011- net-supporter, D, composed of four bars, g g h h. -The two bars gg are connected to the bars h h by rule-joints or hinges, and the twolatter bars are connected together by two links, 1l z', pivoted to them,all being arranged as represented. Furthermore, the bars g g are pivotedto the bars o c of the bow just beneath two stops, Z l, projecting fromthe said bars o c of the front bow in manner as shown. These stops limitthe upward movement of the bonnet-supporter, or hold it in position, asshown in Fig. 1. The Wagon-body I provide with a box or bow receiver, E,arranged underneath it and fixed to it, and provided with an opening anddoor thereto, as shown at m. ceiver E is open at its front, as shown ata, in order that a bow when folded may be passed into the receiver atits rear, and extended out of it and upon the cross-bars o p of thewagonframe, all being as shown by dotted lines, the folded-down parts ofeach bow being within the receiver, which may or should be large enoughto carry the cover when in a folded state. The said cover I make with abonnet, F, to project from its front end, and lap around and upon thefolding bonnet-supporter of the front bow, and I provide such cover atits ends with main and branch straps, arranged as represented, the mainstraps being shown at r, and the branch straps at S. Each of the mainstraps at one end of the cover I provide with a buckle, t. The cover atits sides I provide with loops or button-holed short-straps u to buttonupon knobs or hooks c o projecting from the carriage-body. After thecover may have been placed on the bows, the middle main straps are to bebuckled together, and each pair of side main straps should also bebuckled together, the whole being so as to draw the cover and bonnetclosely upon the bows. After this the cover at its edges may be buttoneddown to the body of the wagon. The cover also has a back fly, G,extended from it, as shown, it being to close the wagon at its rear.

I claim as my invention, as follows:

1. The folding bow B, composed of the four bars o c d d linked,arranged, and hinged together, as specified.

2. The cover provided with the hanged bonnet F, as specified.

3. The cover, provided with the main and branch straps 7' s applied atits ends, and bonnet F, all combined as set forth.

4. The folding bonnet -supporter D, coinposed of the four bars hingedand linked together, in combination with the folding bow,

as specified.

. EDWARD M. SAUNDERS. Witnesses l.. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

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